Continental Takes Star Turn
06.30.2008 - Continental's plan to leave SkyTeam and tightly align with United Airlines and its Star Alliance partners comes short of the merger agreement many expected earlier this year, but the move poses a competitive defense against the strengthened SkyTeam alliance as the Delta-Northwest deal moves forward.
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Profiles In Travel Management: Tyco Uses Agency Tools To Upgrade Travel Program
06.30.2008 - Changes Tyco International made to its travel program last year—including transitioning to a new online booking tool, updating its global travel policy and beginning the process of formalizing a meetings management program—are on pace to save the manufacturing conglomerate millions of dollars in 2008 from expenditures that included $32.2 million in 2007 U.S. booked air volume.
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Locales Levy Taxi Fuel Fees
06.30.2008 - Several of the largest business travel destinations have introduced or are considering introducing taxicab fuel surcharges in response to increasing gas prices.
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2009 Hotel Season To See Slight Delay: Hoteliers Gauge Economy As Some Buyers Revisit '08 Deals
06.30.2008 - Buyers could face slight delays in hotel negotiations this year and reluctance for multiyear deals as hoteliers wait to see how the economy pans out. Yet consultants warn against allowing too much of a delay in the request-for-proposals process. At the same time, some buyers are using the economic dip as a chance for strategic renegotiation of 2008 rates, but hoteliers said it's happening only on a small scale.
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One-On-One With CWT's Douglas Anderson: Mega CEO Eyes Cost, Growth Plans
06.30.2008 - New Carlson Wagonlit Travel president and CEO Douglas Anderson recently spoke with Business Travel News editor-in-chief David Meyer and travel management editor Seth Harris about shedding costs, finding the right mix of acquisitive and organic growth and keeping the company at full speed in the current economic conditions.
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First-Bag Fee Immunity Adds Value For Frequent Flyers
06.30.2008 - Corporate travel buyers used to consider elite status in airline frequent flyer programs a soft dollar benefit, but as American Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways now shield their most frequent travelers from fees to check their first piece of luggage, such negotiated deal sweeteners are proving to have hard dollar value.
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BTN's 2008 Business Travel Survey
06.09.2008 - The 24th annual Business Travel Survey focuses on business travel suppliers' 2007, a good year that began to unravel before it ended as fuel prices spiraled out of control, the value of the dollar plummeted, the U.S. mortgage crisis hit home, retail sales slumped and corporate travel demand began to show some softening. Now, dire circumstances have created an environment that demands change.
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BTN's 2008 Business Travel Survey
06.09.2008 - The 24th annual Business Travel Survey focuses on business travel suppliers' 2007, a good year that began to unravel before it ended as fuel prices spiraled out of control, the value of the dollar plummeted, the U.S. mortgage crisis hit home, retail sales slumped and corporate travel demand began to show some softening. Now, dire circumstances have created an environment that demands change.
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Carriers Slash U.S. Capacity
06.09.2008 - Domestic airline industry downsizing continued in recent weeks as several carriers announced steep capacity withdrawals, employee reductions and fleet retirements to cope with unrelenting fuel costs. Industry analysts said further reductions are likely—as are higher fares, more crowded planes and reduced schedules.
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Siemens Seeks Protection For Corporate Travel Data
06.09.2008 - Siemens Shared Services director of travel management Steven Schoen, alarmed at the extent to which his data is being sold to companies with which he does not even do business, is pursuing a solution with his preferred travel management and global distribution system companies to protect the privacy of employee travel patterns.
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ACTE/BTN's Corporate Travel World Reporter's Notebook: Buyers Brace For Managing Demand
06.09.2008 - Washington, D.C. - Travel buyers are bracing for the difficult economy through tighter controls on expenses as well as reducing the number of trips through remote conferencing, according to a panel of Corporate Travel 100 travel managers meeting during the Business Travel News' Corporate Travel World and the Assocation of Corporate Travel Executives' Global Education Conference collocated here last month.
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One-On-One With Amadeus' David Jones: Amadeus To Further Airline Retailing
06.09.2008 - Amadeus by 2010 plans to roll out its Airline Retailing Platform to offer merchandizing, upselling and unbundling options to airlines through the global distribution system. Executive vice president of commercial David Jones sat down with BTN senior editor Jay Boehmer late last month to discuss the platform's evolution.
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Hotel CEOs See Fewer Rate Hikes, More Discounts Ahead
06.09.2008 - Hotel chief executives this month acknowledged tougher times for the next year and a half and an upcoming corporate hotel negotiating season that will be, from their perspective, more difficult in which to increase rates. The executives also said the United States will comprise a shrinking proportion of their overall portfolio as their development focus moves decidedly eastward.
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BTN's 2008 Procurement Practices Survey: Applying Metrics To Travel Management
05.12.2008 - Negative financial expectations and positive results yielded by applying procurement practices to travel management are accelerating interest in what companies decide to measure, the models of measurement they devise and the tools they use to do so. Business Travel News' 2008 Procurement Practices study examines how and how much such practices are being applied to travel. It provides an understanding of the expectations travel and procurement practitioners have about travel and travel spending in the near term as well as their outlook on the relative importance of controlling costs versus ensuring a suitable level of service.
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Demand Pictures Softening: Increasing Number Of Cos. Cutting Back Air Travel
05.12.2008 - The number of corporations scaling back air travel spending this year continues to grow, though many airlines said they have yet to see evidence of a dramatic corporate travel demand downturn.
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Demand Pictures Softening: Slower U.S. Hotel Demand Could Mean Pricing Relief
05.12.2008 - Hoteliers saw sluggish domestic demand in the first three months of 2008, and with travel buyers and consultants expecting further hotel demand cutbacks on the horizon, some already are seeing clear signs of a more favorable negotiating climate for buyers this summer.
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BCD's Van Vlissingen Sees Growth In Asia, Midmarket
05.12.2008 - With BCD Holdings shareholder John Fentener van Vlissingen becoming Hogg Robinson Group's largest single shareholder by increasing his ownership stake to 13.14 percent late last month, the BCD founder also is planning to make further investments in Asia/Pacific and other emerging markets and diversify BCD Travel's client base by putting an increased emphasis on the midmarket.
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One-On-One: HRG CEO David Radcliffe Reaffirms Strategy, Performance
05.12.2008 - HRG CEO David Radcliffe this month spoke with Business Travel News editor-in-chief David Meyer and travel management editor Seth Harris about the company's strategy as a public company in light of its disappointing stock price performance, corporate travel demand related to the economic slowdown and its U.S. growth tactics.
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TRX: DL-NWA Will Impact Buyers' Power To Negotiate Favorable Corporate Deals
05.12.2008 - The announced merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines will reduce negotiating leverage for corporate travel buyers, according to analysis conducted by TRX Travel Analytics for clients.
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Buyers See Downside Of Delta-NWA: Cite Less Competition, Service; Await More Deals
04.28.2008 - Some corporate travel buyers expect Delta Air Lines' merger agreement with Northwest Airlines to inject a bit of health into a struggling domestic industry, but many expect it to prompt more consolidation, diminish competition, reduce declining U.S. capacity and further degrade customer service.
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